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Adjustment to testing requirement starting midnight of 29 April for individuals with Taiwan or international travel/residence history to leave Macao for Mainland China
The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announces adjustment to quarantine requirements starting 00:00 on 29 April for individuals with Taiwan or international travel/residence history to leave Macao for Mainland China. Details are as follows:
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Bank of China Trophy One Million Dollar Macao Regional Entrepreneurship Competition held at UM
The Bank of China Trophy One Million Dollar Macao Regional Entrepreneurship Competition was held at the University of Macau (UM) again this year, with the trade show and elevator pitch session taking place at the Student Activity Centre. The shortlisted teams will compete in the Macao regional final. The top three teams that emerge from the regional final will represent Macao in the national final, where they will compete with other regional finalists for the grand prize of over RMB 1 million as start-up capital as well as financing opportunities.
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International market development — MGTO forges ahead with online-offline destination promotions overseas
Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) presses ahead with a series of destination promotions overseas to tap into a wider range of international markets. This year, a variety of roadshows are successively unveiled. Familiarization group visits to Macao are organized and special travel offers are launched. An array of online and offline advertisement channels are leveraged to maximize the city’s publicity. The latest advertisements are released on mega digital screens at the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), capitalizing on the airport’s vast flow of overseas visitors to raise the destination profile and attract international travelers.
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IFTM scholar participated in a research project of the General Program by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Recently, Mr. Wu Chi Wai, a lecturer from the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM), has participated in a research project of the General Program by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The research project, titled "Complex Data Feature Modeling and Forecasting for Tourist Demand: Multiscale Deep Learning Approach," will span four years. The project is led by Professor He Kaijian from the College of Tourism at Hunan Normal University, with IFTM’s lecturer Wu Chu Wai as the co-investigator.
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Adjustment to mask-wearing guidelines from 28 April
The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announces upcoming adjustments to the local mask-wearing guidelines after drawing reference from national and international guidelines on the prevention and control of COVID-19 and other respiratory infectious diseases. Starting from 28 April, the mask-wearing rules will be divided into three categories depending on the situations: 1. Situations where masks are required; 2. Situation where masks are recommended; 3. Situations where masks are not required. It should be noted that individuals and institutions must comply with the requirements related to situations where masks are required; however, under the situations where masks are recommended, individuals can decide whether or not to use a mask if no requirement is made by the institutions.
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Statistical Data on Anti-illegal Worker Operations in March2023
Concerning the Public Security Police Force’s operations and the Labour Affairs Bureau’s operations as well as various joint operations against illegal workers in March 2023, the figures are set out below:
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[Goals Achieved] Macao Entrepreneur Delegation Facilitates Bilateral Economic Co-operation between Macao-Hengqin Area and Portugal
As a member of the SAR Government’s mission to Europe, the Macao Entrepreneur Delegation and representatives of the Hengqin Co-operation Zone had a series of business exchange activities in Portugal, including a cocktail reception held by the Macao SAR Government, the “Macao-Portugal Investment and Tourism Promotion Conference”, tours to investment projects made by Macao enterprises in Portugal, trade promotion organisations, as well as visits to industrial and commercial associations in Portugal. The delegation met with a number of big health and technology companies, as well as enterprises in the four key industries, to explore business opportunities by leveraging on the Macao-Hengqin advantages, in a bid to enhance the appropriate diversified development of Macao’s economy. Representatives of chamber of commerce and enterprisers in Portugal said that they would visit Macao, Hengqin and other cities in the Greater Bay Area in this year. Representative of a Macao company in Hengqin said that an intent of business collaboration was reached with a Chinese merchant in Portugal during the trip.
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